The limits of justice: the rhetoric of judicial agents, as a mediator of borders in the sertões of Pernambuco, the end of the 18th century
JURISDICTION; COLONIAL SERTÃO; JUSTICE; DECISION; JUDGES
Our research investigate notions about non-central jurisdictional spaces, such as the colonial hinterland, from the perspective of law and the legal parameters of Modernity, during the18th century. We move away from a stereotyped idea of the colonial sertão, which was reduced its to an empty space of people, institutions and justice. We defense the predominance of a structure of justice in sertão of Pernambuco, which was demanded actions according to its specificities like the New World. Therefore, this research visualized that space like an specific jurisdictional power that and a constitution of a judicial hinterland, moldable to the circumstances and needs, as well as moldable to its seprating limits of power. We settle in following historians who refer to the idea of a New Iberian School, guided by thinking the legal universe related to religion and Moral Theology. In this way, we will connecting the readings that guide the law, the worldview and moral theology, cases and circumstances, judges, judgment and decisions by the judges. We are supported by the attempt not only to think of non-central spaces, but also to contribute to approaches about the faces of the prevailing law in Iberian America, especially with parameters that refer to First Modernity.